Cool! I lived in Falls Church (on Van Buren) when my dad was stationed at the Pentagon in the early 60's. We attened the Falls Church. My brother found some antique horseshoes there once. I went to Madison Elementary School. I remember like it was yesterday when the principal came to the door of our classroom and announced that the President had been shot.
Ping.
Good on you. Can I suggest that you write this all down on paper, and walk door to door delivering this information. Then run for school board, and require that all funds being spent are revealed to the community. Here I thought it was about $6000 a year to educate a child.
By the way, does anyone know the cost of a child at the Hillsdale Academy in Michigan?
There is a terrible amount of waste in public school education. I can't find the article I read before about how the vast majority of funds in public schools are spent on special education students. It was something like the average cost per pupil was $12,000, but the average cost per pupil NON-special-ed was like $3500. I can't remember the exact numbers, and it's been a while since I read it, but it was something close to that. Maybe someone else remembers better than I do.
I was also getting a cheeseburger for lunch today when the cashier rang up my bill and somehow the computer didn't tell her how much change to give me. She cursed, said they didn't give her "no calculator", then looked at me and asked, "OK, so your bill was $4.74 and you gave me $5...?" I sighed and told her 26 cents. She's probably got a high school diploma, sad to say. Now HER education was tax-payer money well spent. /sarc